Traction slide



Feb. 6, 1951 KUEHL ETAL 2,540,268

TRACTION SLIDE Filed Nov. 15, 1948 Hugo H. Kueh/ Char/es J. War/r0 Harry L. Porter I N VENTORS Patented Feb. 6, 1951 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TRACTION SLIDE Hugo H. Kuehl, Palmer, Charles J. Warka, Monson, and Harry L. Porter, Springfield, Mass.

Application November 15, 1948, Serial N 0. 60,112

2 Claims. 1

The present invention relates to new and useful improvement in surgical appliances and more particularly to a traction slide to aid in the p oper setting of a fractured bon in the leg or other part of the body.

Another important object of the invention is to provide a traction slide to hold a leg in a proper position during healing of a fracture to prevent the tendency of the toes and foot from turning outward.

A further object of the invention is to provide a traction slide of this character of simple and practical construction, which is efiicient and reliable in use, relatively inexpensive to manufacture and otherwise well adapted for the purposes for which the same is intended.

Other objects and advantages reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View;

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 22 of Figure 1; and

Figures 3 and 4 are fragmentary sectional views taken respectively on the lines 3-3 and 44 of Figure 1.

Referring now to the drawings in detail wherein for the purpose of illustration we have disclosed a preferred embodiment of the invention the numeral 5 designates a pair of spaced apart parallel tubes having longitudinal slots Btherein. The ends of the tubes are closed by plugs I and transverse spreader bars 8 are slidable in aligned openings 9 in the tubes and plugs and are secured in adjusted position by thumb screws l threaded through the ends of the plug and engaging the bars 8 to thus hold the tubes equally spaced apart at each end.

Slides II are positioned for sliding movement in each of the tubes and to which the lower ends of standards I2 are suitably secured, the standards being slidable in the slots 6 of th tubes. The standards are formed with vertical slots l3 and the collars l 4 are carried by the standards for vertical sliding movement and secured in verti cally adjusted position by thumb screws l5. Openings I6 are provided in the collars to receive a Kirschner wire (not shown) supported between the standards.

A transverse bar I 1 is adjustably secured in the lower portion of standards I3 by thumb screws l8 and a leg rest I9 is suitably secured to the central portion of the bar I! for tilting adjust- 2 ment, the leg rest comprising a substantially rectangular plate.

In the operation of the device, the tubes 5 are placed on a bed or other support on which the patient is resting and the leg to be treated rests on leg rest I9 which is tilted to a desired position.

A Kirschner wire, which is inserted through the lower portion of the tibia of the fractured leg, is left with its ends free which are secured in the collars I4 and the collars adjusted vertically on the standards I2. Traction may then be instituted in the usual manner.

In view of the foregoing description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings it is believed that a clear understanding of the device will be quite apparent to those skilled in this art. A more detailed description is accordingly deemed unnecessary.

It is to be understood, however, that even though there is herein shown and described a preferred embodiment of the invention the same is susceptible to certain changes fully comprehended by the spirit of the invention as herein described and the scope of the appended claims.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A traction device comprising a pair of parallel tubular rails, slides in the rails, a standard rising from each slide, and a leg rest supported by the standards and positioned between the rails and including a leg supporting plate.

2. A traction device comprising a pair of parallel rails, spreaders securing th rails in adjustable spaced relation to each other, standards adjustably carried by the rails, and a leg rest supported by the standards and positioned between the rails comprising a bar extending through the standards and rockably adjustable therein, and a leg supporting plate on said bar tiltable by rocking of said bar.

HUGO H. KUEHL. CHARLES J. WARKA. HARRY L. PORTER.

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